On this historic day, April 26th, 2011, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (BOS) granted official recognition to the United Public Employees of California (UPEC), Local 792 as the exclusive representation unit of 028, the County IT workers. Because of this, all changes to 028 working conditions have to be negotiated before UPEC, Local 792 before the BOS can vote them in. This is something that DPPA gave up when 028 voted in the organization back in 1983. All we could do was ask to be listened to, but Labor Relations did not have to negotiate before they changed anything.
This change will take place on May 7th, 2011. Your DPPA President had a meeting with Sacramento County Labor Relations and they said DPPA could continue to be a social organization, but the ties to Labor Relations would be cut on May 8th. DPPA will no longer get the $1 per pay period, which DPPA Members have given to DPPA, after that day. The DPPA Board has not decided what we will do in the future with the organization yet. You will be asked to vote on this when the DPPA Board has some idea what will be the effort of our new organization.
What the DPPA Board decided to do in the short term at the last Board meeting was continue to give the Service Awards and have the picnic in the summer. We could continue to do this for some years in the future due to the saving that DPPA has made over the years. Probably in the early fall, we will decide what the options are for DPPA in the future and ask for a vote on it before we do anything with the moneys that we have saved. In our by-laws, it states that we must give the money away to a charitable organization if we close up shop. If any of you have any idea what DPPA should do with the money, let us hear from you by emailing us at dppa@dppa.org.
Now on to what is happening with UPEC, Local 792.
On Tuesday night, April 26th, 2011, 028 employees meet with the UPEC people who will represent 028 in the future. UPEC really wants to have as many members of 028 decide what they should negotiate on. It was decided that we will have a General Members meeting on the second Tuesday of the month between 5:30pm and 7pm at Probation. We have the first six meetings at the following location: Youth Detention Facility (Juvenille Hall) 9601 Kiefer Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95827. The dates for the first meetings are: May 10th, June 14th, July 12th, August 9th, September 13th and October 11th all in 2011.
As part of the first meeting, UPEC will ask 028 for anybody that wants to be on the negotiating committee and those people will stay after the genreal members meeting to go over what we will be negotiating with Labor Relations. The following negotiating meetings will be at 3331 Power Inn Road, for May 17th and 31st, 2011.
This is a new day for 028 and hopefully the change to have UPEC negotiate our working conditions will be good.
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